Gravity Forms is one of the most powerful WordPress plugins available, and hands down the best forms plugin money can buy. Gravity Forms gets installed on every single website I build, and if I take over maintenance of a website, I usually encourage clients to switch to Gravity Forms. It’s so powerful, expandable and easy […]

Years ago, when I was building old school HTML websites, I would use the PHP Include function to insert one web page into another. This was incredibly useful when you had an element that was common among multiple pages (like a sidebar or a footer) and you didn’t want to have to make updates to […]

If you’re a fan of Jim Henson’s manic brand of fun and whimsy, this new font by designers at MCKL and COLLINS is exactly what you’ve been waiting for. Kernit is a loveable, strange and totally psychedelic typeface available for free in two styles: bold and outline. The font is “meant to capture the same imagination, […]

If you just set-up a new IMAP based email account on your iPhone things are normally pretty easy. However, if the set-up didn’t go totally as planed you will sometimes get an error message that says your message was “rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying”. Don’t worry, this is easy to […]

Total is hands down my favourite WordPress theme – I’ve tried dozens of different themes but keep on coming back to Total because it’s so simple, powerful and feature-rich. If you haven’t tried Total yet, you really, really should. However there’s one thing I’ve never been able to figure out how to do and it’s […]

Google has been touting the benefits of the HTTPS protocol for years, elevating sites using HTTPS in Google’s search results since 2015. With the release of Chrome 68 in July, 2018 Google is going one step further, actively marking any website that use the older (and inherently less secure HTTP) as ‘Not Secure’ right in […]

Have you ever struggled to fix a nagging issue with your WordPress website? Did a software update break your WordPress theme? Having trouble adding a new page to your website? That’s where NinjaWP comes in! They are experts at fixing WordPress and WooCommerce issues and offer expert level support to ensure your website is running […]

If you’re anything like me, you use the align tools in Adobe Illustrator on a daily basis. Unfortunately when you use these tools, no matter how many objects you select or the order you select them in, each object moves, making it impossible to do something as simple as centre an object within a box. […]

Mac OS X has a reputation for being user friendly, and in almost every single way it is. Unless you want to have a fancy HTML email signature and are using Apple Mail that is. For some bizarre reason using an HTML signature is a shockingly difficult proposition. Thankfully, after creating my own HTML signature, […]

Deciding what to charge a client is one of the most difficult things any designer will ever have to do. There are so many factors that need to be considered. Charging too much ensures you won’t get the job; charging too little ensures you will attract lower calibre clientele. The ultimate goal is to find […]

I am an hardcore Mac OS X fan. I’ve been using one continually since 1989 and don’t plan on changing anytime soon. My computer does what I need it to do, and it does so quickly, easily and efficiently. My biggest (minor) complaint has to do with Spotlight file searches. I do literally hundreds of file searches […]

Sometimes the only way to add the functionality you need to a WordPress website is to edit the site’s function.php file. I’ve seen thousands of WordPress how-to articles throughout my career as a web developer and so many of them say to add this code to the site’s functions.php file or header.php file and you’re […]

I know this type of article has been done a million times, and you have probably seen many of these logos before, but it’s still always good for a laugh. You seriously have to ask yourself if the designers of these logos really hated their clients, or was everyone involved in the design process oblivious […]

Moving a WordPress site from one server to another has always been a bit of a pain. You need to deal with all the website files, the plugins, images, and of course the database. Throw in a domain name change and the whole process gets downright frightening – however using the fantastic All-in-One WP Migration Plugin by ServMask, migrating […]

When you visit a website, the tiny little image in the browser tab or bookmarks panel is called a favicon. It’s one of those nice little touches that good web designers add to a website, and an easy thing to overlook for the not-so-good web designers. Back in the olden days of web design – meaning over 5 […]

My very first computer was a Mac Classic and, at the time it was a fast and incredibly efficient machine that never left me waiting for anything, no matter what I threw at it. In hindsight what I was throwing at it was adorably minimal, but everything just worked. And that 40 MB hard drive never […]

My love affair with typography started when I purchased my very first computer – a trusty Mac Classic with a tiny black & white screen, and a tinier hard drive. I absolutely loved opening a magazine and finding a floppy disk loaded free fonts, freeware and shareware. Many of the fonts I discovered this way were often useless and hideous, but […]

The YITH WooCommerce Gift Card plugin is one of the easiest, and simplest way to offer gift cards on your WooCommerce online store. This WordPress plugin is dead simple to install and set-up, and there’s a paid-version if you are need more advanced features (seriously, the premium version’s features are insane) – check it out here. […]

It was ten years ago this week (January 9, 2007) that Steve Jobs introduced the world to the first iPhone. Jobs inspired or helped create a huge number of technologies during his time at Apple, NeXT Computers and Pixar – he has well over 300 patents to his name. However, few products were as ground breaking or […]

The wp-config.php file is hands down one of the most important files in your entire installation – without it your WordPress site will not work. With this great power comes a great responsibility to not screw things up or risk breaking your website. There are a ton of additions and tweaks you can add to your wp-config.php file, […]

If you are looking for design inspiration when working on your next logo or branding project, Logo Miner is a great website to hit. You can easily view the colour scheme and fonts used for tons of famous logos from around the world. There’s even links to download or purchase the fonts. It is also possible to […]

Check out Spunger’s new weekly feature – Awesome Colour Palettes! Each week we will showcase a new selection of awesome colour palettes, perfect for web or graphic design. This week’s colour palettes come from all around the world, including Canada, Cambodia and Costa Rica.

Every business owner knows they should probably have a website. Unfortunately some owners are too cheap to hire a web designer, some owners don’t want to have the time it takes to maintain a website and some just don’t see the point because a Facebook page is good enough (right?). PaveVamp changes all that. In […]

SEO is an insanely cut-throat industry – anything that helps you better optimize your website is an invaluable tool for any webmaster or web designer. OptimizeMySite, my go-to tool for SEO analysis, is a relatively new service but it’s interface and awesome analysis make it my hands down favourite. All you have to do is […]

Getting paid is pretty much the most important part of freelancing or remote working. When you don’t see your clients face-to-face on a regular basis it gets more difficult to make sure the money keeps flowing in. Charge what you’re worth. Don’t be afraid to lose a job because a client can’t afford you Charging what […]

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